On December 16, 1999, in Blackfoot, Idaho a 16-year-old female server working at a local pizza parlor was taken to the manager's office after a phone call made by an individual only identifying as "Officer Davis" for the Blackfoot Police Department, accused an employee of stealing a woman's purse with a $50 bill in it earlier that evening.On January 20, 1999, a manager for a Burger King in Fargo, North Dakota slapped the naked buttocks of a 17-year-old female employee after being instructed by someone on the phone claiming to be a police officer.The manager of the restaurant was summoned to the restaurant in an order to strip search the employee. A man claiming to be an Oktibbeha County deputy sheriff called a Pizza Hut in Starkville, Mississippi and accused an employee of stealing money from a restaurant customer.Two calls were reported in 1995: one in Devils Lake, North Dakota, and another in Fallon, Nevada.The caller told two minor females working at the restaurant to allow the manager to strip search them. On August 4, 1994, a man claiming to be a sheriff's deputy called a McDonald's restaurant in Saybrook Township, Ohio, stating that a customer's purse was stolen from the restaurant.
Many of the incidents would last hours before either the participants of the strip search realized the call is a hoax or by the intervention of a bystander. Eventually, the caller would have groomed the manager to the point where they would do almost anything asked by the caller, such as spanking, kissing, inappropriate touching, oral sex, and even sexual assault and rape. The tasks would initially start as strip searches before gradually becoming more invasive and sexual in nature as the "investigation" continued. He would then provide a generic description of the suspect (typically a young female employee, but a few victims have been male or older) which the manager would recognize, and he would then ask the manager to search the suspected person.
With every hoax, a male caller who identified himself as a police officer or other authority figure would contact a manager or supervisor and would solicit their help in detaining an employee or customer who was suspected of a crime, such as theft or drug possession. The majority of the calls were made to fast-food chain restaurants, but some were made to grocery stores and video rental stores. There were numerous prior incidents in many states which followed the pattern of the fraudulent call to a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Washington, Kentucky. Police reported that the scam calls ended after Stewart's arrest.
He was suspected of, but never charged with, having made other, similar scam calls. Stewart was acquitted of all charges in the Mount Washington case despite phone cards linked to some of the calls being found in his residence, and video of a man co-workers identified as Stewart purchasing the cards.
A 2004 incident in Mount Washington, Kentucky led to the arrest of David Richard Stewart, a resident of Florida. More than 70 such phone calls were reported in 30 U.S. The calls were most often made to fast-food restaurants in small towns. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of employees (or at least in two known cases, a customer), and to perform other bizarre and humiliating acts on behalf of "the police".
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The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994.
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